Unit SC4 Principles for Implementing Duty of Care. Assignment 055 Task A Duty of care means to take measures, which are reasonable in the circumstances, to prevent harm to other people. Duty of care for Early Years providers is a legal requirement set out in the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage and Early Years providers are guided by the Working together to Safeguard Children 2010 publication and by comprehensive Health & Safety and Safeguarding Policies. Any person who is responsible for a child or young person has a duty of care and needs to take all reasonable care for their safety. While children are in our care, we have a legal duty of care, to exercise a reasonable amount of attention to ensure that our acts do…
Each facility has their own policy and procedures that nurse are follow and its nurse’s responsibility to get familiar with them. Each facility has employee hand book that is given on time of hire. Nurse should know as well if they are qualified enough to complete certain task or responsibilities and if they are assigned to the task that does not come in their scope of profession they should question it and take next action, because it’s their license which is on the line and who they have worked hard to get. that is why it is very necessary to read the employee hand…
In this, I will be evaluating of care provisions explaining the role and responsibility of each regulator. There are three altered types of regulator which are CQC Care Quality Commission, OFSTED – the office for standards in education and HCPC Health and Care Professional Council.…
You have been asked to give a two short talks, one to parents and one to students about to start working with children, both talks concern understanding how to support positive outcomes. You must produce two leaflets or posters to give out at each talk which the parents or students can then display as reminders. The leaflet/poster must be supported either by a talk given to the assessor and recorded or written notes.…
It is essential, in order to provide a good quality of service and ensure best practise, that managers and their staff receive the relevant & regular mandatory training and updates. This training should be identified at the annual appraisal and then reviewed at supervision where positive/negative feedback can be given as appropriate to show how any training received is incorporated into the job role whereby improving knowledge skills and best practise. In addition to this, all new and unqualified staff must complete induction training to Skills for Care specification within six weeks of appointment. The learning achieved through this training will enable new employees to provide the required quality of service to the clients and therefore meet their needs as set out in their individual care plans. Not only is continual personal development training essential it is in line with legislation and The Essential Standards for Quality and Safety.…
Clinical guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioners and patients in making decisions about appropriate health care for specific circumstances (Reames, Krell, Ponto, & Wong, 2013). Healthcare providers rely on guidelines to implement evidence-based practice protocols. The process of developing protocols requires an interprofessional collaborative team which includes hospital administration working with and supporting physicians, nurses, patient advocates and other staff members (n.d., 2015).…
The process of ACP is a reflection of society’s desire to respect personal autonomy. The content of any discussion should be determined by the individual concerned. The individual may not wish to confront future issues; this should be respected…
To protect the resident’s identity, the resident will be called Mrs Florence Nightingale. Mrs Florence Nightingale has been selected to demonstrate how to maximize health using the nursing process. She is a 77 year’s old elderly resident in a private up-market nursing home in an EMI unit, who’s unable to self mobilize and is dependent upon a hoist for transferring. She is unable to verbally communicate, or feed her self. Due to her restricted mouth movement, difficulty with swallowing and fear of choking she is only fed in liquid form, which is thickened. She suffers from multiple disorders such as Alzheimer’s, CVA (stroke) and is doubly incontinent. Issues focusing on sustenance intake and surrounding issues will be explored in order to maximize the health of Mrs Florence Nightingale. Issues include psychological and social impacts of eating alone, ensuring adequate nutritional intake and adequate mouth care. Through the nursing process the patient’s perspective of health is identified in order maximize the patient’s health.…
Case Study: Sandra, a 45-year old female, was brought into the emergency room by her friends with a severe head wound. According to her friends, Sandra tripped and fell after consuming several alcoholic drinks. When she arrived at the hospital she was incoherent and the hospital staff was not able to contact her next of kin. Due to the severity of her wounds, the physician chose to begin medical procedures.…
Knowledge deficit of management of visual impairment related to patient being unfamiliar with facial cellulitis as evidenced by the patient and spouse asking about what needs to be done to manage the cellulitis and what kind of assistance the patient may need .…
The standards of practice for the RN are made up by the state board of nursing that the nurse lives in. It is each nurse’s responsibility to know and abide by their standards of practice for their state. Each state develops their standards of practice by following guidelines that the American Nurses Association (ANA) provides. The ANA has a committee on Nursing Practice Standards and Guidelines that has a duty to clarify the role and relationships that are associated with regulation of all nursing practice (ANA, n.d.). “The model recognizes the contributions of professional and specialty nursing organizations, educational institutions, credentialing and accrediting organizations, and regulatory agencies; clarifies the role of workplace policies and procedures; and confirms the individual nurse’s ultimate responsibility and accountability for defining nursing practice” (ANA, n.d.).…
maintain the level of competency as outlined in the Standards of Practice for Healthcare Quality Professionals…
Possible solutions to the shortcomings of pateint centered care model are care coordinators and electronic medical records. Care coordinators are being tried in some hospitals to help patients with organization of care activities, coordination of care and facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services (Skillings, 2009). The goal of the care coordinator is create a smooth transition between health care sectors and declines for the patients without vital information being missed or reduction in value based care. In a similar manner, electronic medical records would improve communication among physicians and between various sectors of health care (Häyrinen, 2008). Information now on the patient could be easy accessed from different…
The law of Medicaid demanded from the states that they should expand the wide network of health facilities across to their areas so that people can be benefitted from them. According to a fact the coverage of this program should cover the people who make percentage as high as 138% of poverty level according to federal laws. This fact should also be mentioned that recently the provision has been modified under the instructions of Supreme Court which ruled on the case of Obama care. There are sources which are declaring that Medicaid expansion as ‘milestones in health care history.’…
Emerging standards regarding culturally competent care is very important in the health care field. Nurses need to understand and care for individuals with varying cultural beliefs and behaviors about health and well being which is shaped by race, ethnicity, nationality, language, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and occupation. Cultural competent health care is a type of care which is provided to the patient by the health care worker being responsive to varying attitudes or different attitudes and values, verbal cues, and non verbal cues of the patient (Goldsmith, 2012). Cultural competence includes understanding the individual’s needs specific to their cultural environment which can also include individuals with mental health issues. Patients with mental health issues require the nurse to be capable of providing understanding of their unique characteristics and needs.…